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Even Money

Carolyn throws her family’s savings on the slots and befriends a washed-up magician who promises to help. Clyde is in deep water with the bookies that he asks Godfrey, his younger college-basketball star brother, to shave points off games to square off his debt. Evil bookie Victor has small-timers Augie and Murph doing all the hard work as he enjoys the violent jobs, at the behest of a possibly-real criminal cat called Ivan…

Publication date: August 26, 2009

Even Money

Program data

Duration:
120

Production Year:
2006

Timing

currently not on air

A film about gambling addictions; as novelist Carolyn (Kim
Basinger) throws her family’s savings on the slots and lies to her husband Tom
(Ray Liotta) as she convinces him that she sits at a coffee shop working on her
new book. Carolyn befriends Walter a washed-up magician (Danny DeVito) who
promises to help. Clyde (Forest Whitaker) is in deep water with the bookies
that he asks Godfrey (Nick Cannon), his younger college-basketball star
brother, to shave points off games to square off his debt. Evil bookie Victor (Tim
Roth) has small-timers Augie (Jay Mohr) and Murph doing all the hard work as he
enjoys the violent jobs, at the behest of a possibly-real criminal cat called
Ivan. While following all of this and keeping a close eye is detective Brunner
(Kelsey Grammer) who, though crippled, is trying to solve a case of murders
that were ordered by the questionable Ivan…